CHEMICAL RESEARCH I N LIBERAL-ARTS COLLEGES I N 1952 JOHN R. SAMPEY Furman University, Greenville, South Camlina
S T m m s have been made of the contributions from and 195&51 lists of abstracts, and they account for a liberal-arts colleges t o the Journal of the A m e n ' m total of 34 articles. Chemical Society1 and the JOURNAL OF CFIEMICAL A survey of Biological Abstracts for 19514reveals a EDUCATION.^ A broader picture of the research inter- similar pattern of publication from liberal-arts colleges. ests of the chemistry departments of these institutions Forty-seven colleges contributed 103I/s articles abstraccan be drawn from a survey of the periodical Chemical ted during the year; only 12 institutions appear in Abstracts. both Biological Abstracts for 1951 and Chemical AbA check of the issues of Chemical Ab#tracts for 1952 stracts for 1952. This emphasizes the fact that research shows that 51 liberal-arts colleges had 98 articles ab- in liberal-arts colleges depends more upon the interest stracted in this key t o the world's chemical literature. and initiative of individual faculty members than upon Thirty-four of these colleges had only one article each, the standing or general reputation of the institutions in whiie the eight most active (Amherst, Brooklyn, Car- academic circles. son-Newman, Funnan, Mount Holyoke, Oberlin, Distinction in the trainmg of the leaders of American Richmond, and Wesleyan) account for a total of 45 science is reflected somewhat in the current research articles. "The College Blue Book," sixth edition interests of liberal-arts colleges. Of the 46 colleges (1950), has been used to determine the liberal-arts which trained present members of the National Acadstatus of the colleges. Institutions which grant the emy of Sciences, nine appear in the 1952 volume of Ph.D. degree, or which have professional schools of Chemical Abs&acts (Amherst, College of Wooster, Grinagriculture, engineering, medicine, pharmacy, etc., nell, Haverford, Lebanon Valley, Oberlin, Pomona, are not classed as liberal-arts. Trinity, and We~leyan).~ A check of Chemical Abstracts for a longer period than Four of the 22 liberal-arts colleges which trained leadone year is desirable, but a record kept for two and one- ers in the American Chemical Society are also in the half years on liberal-arts colleges in the South has not 1952 Chemical Abstracts (Amherst, Grinnell, Haverchanged the basic p i c t ~ r e . ~Eleven colleges in this ford, and We~leyan).~ section had 24 articles in Chemical Abstracts for 1952, Five of the 13 colleges which granted bachelor's deand during the preceding 18 months (to the middle of grees t o leaders of the American Association for the 1950) 12 colleges had 25 articles abstracted; only five Advancement of Science produced articles in the 1952 colleges (Bethany, Carson-Newman, Florida Southern, Chemical Abstracts (College of Wooster, Oberlm, RichFurman. and Texas Lutheran) amear on both the 1952 mond, Wesleyan, and Wheaton).' ' SAMPEY,J. R., J. Higher Educ., 20, 208 (1949); C h . Eng. ' SAMPEY,J. R.,J . Higher Educ., in press.
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